GLOVER’S MISTAKE by Nick Laird
SMART, MOPEY LAD-LIT with flashes of humor follows an angry blogger’s unrequited love for a brilliant older artist. B PLUS
GLOVER’S MISTAKE
Penguin Group (USA)
2009
Grade: B PLUS
Tags: B Plus Reviews
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SMART, MOPEY LAD-LIT with flashes of humor follows an angry blogger’s unrequited love for a brilliant older artist. B PLUS
GLOVER’S MISTAKE
Penguin Group (USA)
2009
Grade: B PLUS
Tags: B Plus Reviews
NEAR-FUTURE HORRORS fill a spooky suite of science fiction short stories, set in a world beset by an alien plague. SOLID B
A IS FOR ALIEN
Subterranean Press
2009
Grade: SOLID B
Tags: Solid B Reviews
ANOTHER QUIRKY POLICE PROCEDURAL from a Dutch master of the genre. Believable characters, taut plotting. SOLID B #beachread
DEKOK AND THE DEAD HARLEQUIN (INSPECTOR DEKOK) (INSPECTOR DEKOK INVESTIGATES)
Speck Pr
2009
Grade: SOLID B
Tags: Solid B Reviews
JUST IN TIME FOR THE 40TH ANNIVERSARY, a well-researched oral history of Woodstock spotlights performers, fans. SOLID B
BACK TO THE GARDEN: THE STORY OF WOODSTOCK
Touchstone
2009
Grade: SOLID B
Tags: Solid B Reviews
THE GREAT UK INDIE-ROCK NOVEL delivers spot-on but warmhearted satire on music geeks and fandom culture. B PLUS #beachread
THE ALTERNATIVE HERO
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
2009
Grade: B PLUS
Tags: B Plus Reviews
WORLD WAR TWO MYSTERY from John Gardner has intriguing plot, spunky heroine, but seems a bit hasty in places. SOLID B
NO HUMAN ENEMY (SUZIE MOUNTFORD MYSTERIES)
Minotaur Books
2008
Grade: SOLID B
Tags: Solid B Reviews
DRYLY FUNNY, SERIOUSLY CURMUDGEONLY memoir offers off-beat perspective on teaching, mothering, loving, and living. SOLID B
I’M SORRY YOU FEEL THAT WAY: THE ASTONISHING BUT TRUE STORY OF A DAUGHTER, SISTER, SLUT, WIFE, MOTHER, ANDFRIEND TO MAN AND DOG
Amy Einhorn Books/Putnam
2009
Grade: SOLID B
Tags: Solid B Reviews
REAL-LIFE ADVENTURE TALE of antiquities looting and Biblical forgeries is smart, fascinating, fast-paced. B PLUS #beachread
UNHOLY BUSINESS: A TRUE TALE OF FAITH, GREED AND FORGERY IN THE HOLY LAND
Smithsonian
2008
Grade: B PLUS
Tags: B Plus Reviews
RADIO PERSONALITY’S tale of drug abuse and recovery makes for an honest and even funny, but too rambling, memoir. B MINUS
COOKED IN LA: I SHOT FOR THE STARS AND HIT BOTTOM
Kunati Inc.
2009
Grade: B MINUS
Tags: B Minus Reviews
PERIOD PIECE about love, photography, and the dawn of girlie magazines in the 1940s has humor and charm. B PLUS #beachread
NOTHING BUT A SMILE
Pantheon Books
2009
Grade: B PLUS
Tags: B Plus Reviews